Vitis tiliifolia


Vitis tiliifolia is a New World liana in the grape family commonly known as Caribbean grape. Other names include West Indian grape, water vine, and water tie-tie and water-wise.

Distribution

Vitis tiliifolia is found throughout most of Mexico and in many other countries in the Americas and the Caribbean.

Uses

Vitis tiliifolia is grown as a forest crop in Mayan agriculture, and is used for food or drink, or as an ingredient in medicines.

Pests

Vitis tiliifolia may have some resistance to Pierce's disease, which afflicts many commercial grape species; it has exhibited atypical symptoms despite harboring high populations of the plant pathogen Xylella fastidiosa, which causes PD.